Catching up.... last card from last weekend

This card was inspired by my crafty friend, Carol (CarolG ... creates (creationsnz)_  She recently did some cards using some of the "Gorjuss Girls" stamps and it reminded me I have a couple of them.   Mine are a bit bigger versions than Carol's stamps... but it was fun to get them out as I've had them for around 12 years!

This little stamp is called Bear Skin... It has a little squirrel next to her, but I masked it off so I could just get the little girl.   I stamped and cut with the Scan'n'Cut and used Altenew Alcohol Markers to olour her.   I made a background panel by stamping Your Next Stamp Large Splatter with Altenew Soft Lilac ink and added some gold dots with a gold pen. I then ink blended around the edges using the residual ink on my purple blending brush.  I matted it with some dark card from Scrapbook.com Purples Smooth cardstock. The sentiment is from an older Hero Arts set - All Occasions Stamp set.   

Inspired by a Book/Feature a book/ Use a book page at Sweet Stamp' Challenge

It's time for a new challenge at Sweet Stampin' Challenge.  Our challenge this week is:  Inspired by a Book/Feature a Book/Use a Book Page   - lots of scope here.

  
I decided to use a card with Books on it.

 This is stamp I've had for a long time.  It's a Gorjuss Girl stamp by Santoro.  I have used Zig Markers to colour her in.  I masked her and then used a Hero Arts stamp in light grey ink to stamp it.

Do come and join us at Sweet Stampin' this week.  

Gorjuss Girls

Two cards to share tonight.... both with new Gorjuss Girl stamps from Docrafts.

First up....

.....this beautiful girl standing on some books... however it is rather large ~over 6 inches  tall which meant she didn't fit onto my card front,  I had to trim the top and some of the books off the bottom.  I stamped and then coloured with Copics.  Added the trim down the side and layered onto some Creative Imaginations PP.  I stamped the photo corners onto the same card as the trim and cut them out.  The book plate is from the set as well and I coloured with Copics and some distress ink   Sentiment is a Hastings Rubber Stamps one,   Still need to practise colouring black hair.  Been watching some You Tube videos.  

And this second one......

   
.... which I just finished and try to photograph under the artificial light ( not very good) The colours are way too greeny yellow.  Will definitely take a photo in the morning.  EDITED: replace with a decent photo
The hair colouring on this one is a bit better.  Still lots of room to improve!.  Happy though with the way I managed the shading on her dress.  The PP is from My Minds Eye ~ Portobello Road~ with some added stamping and distressing.  The ribbon is hand dyed ( not sure what colour I used as it was done some time ago) The fence is a Spellbinders De-lite sponged with Distress inks.
All in all very happy with my new stamps.  I'm sure you'll see a few more samples with these delightful girls.

We are off again this weekend.... This time down to Te Puke ( around 3hrs south east from home) to visit with our friends who own a Kiwifruit orchard.  Hoping the nice weather continues.

Thanks for stopping by.  Much appreciated that you take the time to visit.